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title: "1 Architecture Art Quotes By Le Corbusier"
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> [You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/you-employ-stone-wood-and-concrete-and-with-these-materials-you-build/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

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## Other authors on Architecture Art

## More by Le Corbusier

> [Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/light-creates-ambience-and-feel-of-a-place-as-well-as-the-expression/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/a-hundred-times-have-i-thought-new-york-is-a-catastrophe-and-50-times/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/to-create-architecture-is-to-put-in-order-put-what-in-order-function/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/architecture-is-the-learned-game-correct-and-magnificent-of-forms/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/my-research-is-like-my-feeling-directed-towards-what-is-the-principle/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/negro-music-has-touched-america-because-it-is-the-melody-of-the-soul/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [By law, all buildings should be white.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/by-law-all-buildings-should-be-white/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/you-know-it-is-life-that-is-right-and-the-architect-who-is-wrong/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/our-world-like-a-charnel-house-is-strewn-with-the-detritus-of-dead/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/the-materials-of-city-planning-are-sky-space-trees-steel-and-cement/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [The home should be the treasure chest of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/the-home-should-be-the-treasure-chest-of-living/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/chairs-are-architecture-sofas-are-bourgeois/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/we-must-kill-the-street-we-shall-truly-enter-into-modern-town/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/the-truthfulness-of-materials-of-constructions-concrete-bricks-and/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

> [Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/le-corbusier/considerable-sacrifices-were-demanded-of-the-inhabitants-of-the/)

[Le Corbusier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/le-corbusier/)

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